For the Love of Nancy

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Serious Eating Disorders.......2007-09-06

I liked this film. The seriousness of the theme is a crucial event in our time and I believe it gives plenty of information for those going through the same thing.

Timeless and Informative.......2007-09-03

I first watched this movie on TV when it came out. I thought it was good then, so I decided to purchase the DVD. It's still very good. One thing that helps this movie is that Tracey Gold could draw from her own experience of having Anorexia Nervosa. I think she was still recovering when this movie was made. The other characters were very realistic as well. If I remember right, this was loosely based on a true story. Even if it's not, it's probably inspired from many families' stories. I would recommend this movie to people who want to learn more about eating disorders. I would caution people who are either actively engaging in or recovering from AN about watching this movie, as it could be triggering (that has been my experience).

The great one.......2007-06-16

I agree with the above.

This is certainly the best movie I have seen dealing with an eating disorder. It takes you into the mind of the sufferer...and a true one at that. Because Tracy Gold made this movie just getting out of treatment for anorexia, it trult depicts what hell a person is in with this demond. It also shares light on what a famiuly goes through as a loved one suffers. Alothough not everyone suffers the same, has the same help, or suffers from the same reasons I am sure that if you suffer from an eating disorder, or have a loved on who does yoiu will relate.

For love of this movie.......2007-05-16

This isn't the first movie that deals with eating disorders, but it's the best. The acting is first rate, the story is compelling and it's told in a sensitive manner that others haven't been able to accomplish. This is a true story and that fact makes this movie all the more touching. This could be any family, in any city or town in America. You really care about the people in this movie and hope everything turns out okay. I think that it's some of the best acting I've seen from any of the actors especially Tracey Gold who drew on her own experiences to portray the devestating effects these illnesses cause.

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movie & packaging
Oh please!
Pretty good movie.
One more kiss
Very good movie...

One More Kiss
Starring: Valerie Edmond , Gerard Butler , Valerie Gogan , James Cosmo , and Carl Proctor
Director: Vadim Jean
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ASIN: B000EXDRUI
Release Date: 2006-06-06

Description

When Sarah Hopson (Valerie Edmond) realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam, her childhood sweetheart and the only man she ever loved. Sam Murray (Gerard Butler of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, DEAR FRANKIE) runs a restaurant. He and Sarah grew up together and Sam hoped they'd grow old together. His world fell apart the day Sarah left and now she's back, standing on his doorstep and telling his wife she'd like to spend some time with him.

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movie & packaging.......2007-06-11

A keeper and have watched it three times. Will share with family & friends.
Extremely well-packed and in perfect shape.

Oh please!.......2007-02-17

I love Gerard Butler and he does a supberb job however, both he and his "love" are self absorbed and have not a bit of compassion for his wife who needlessly has to suffer her husband's increasingly compassionate and obvious love for his ex. Of course, we want to feel the moments of compassion for her pending death and a bit does surface but overall she was selfish, thoughtless and couldn't care less for the suffering she brought with her need to be wanted by the man she had rejected. Maybe he'll never get over her loss but certainly after his thoughtless actions he deserves being alone.

Pretty good movie........2007-01-10

Good movie ... especially if you are a Gerard Butler fan. Not your typical romance ... makes you think a bit.

One more kiss.......2007-01-04

If I could, I give a "CERO STARS" I would do it, This movie is a joke, I can't belive the story of "love" of a selfish woman who is dying of cancer and the best she could do before she die is broke and destroy a marriage, destroy the life of the man she love, his wife and others in her path, and die peacefuly, and happy of what she did in the last days of her life, I was so upset and sick that, after I finish with the movie, the DVD went direct to the trash (not even in the recycle container) so bad I make the producer of this film some money and I can't have a refund, not even the good looking Gerard Butler (an actor who I really love) and the reazon why I bougth the movie can save it. please, don't waste your time and money, if you are a fan of Gerard, better buy a poster picture of him with your money.

Very good movie..........2006-11-10

It is a sad movie, but it has a good story behind it. Again, an early Gerard Butler movie..he is so young in it. If you like love stories and/or Gerard Butler..SEE IT!!

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Suicide Kings Review
This mob film has it all
I Give This Film Five Cowbells
BUSKET
Awesomely Gruesome

Suicide Kings
Starring: Mark Watson (II) , Christopher Walken , Denis Leary , Nina Siemaszko , and Jay Della
Director: Peter O'Fallon
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
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ASIN: B00005QAOZ
Release Date: 2001-08-14

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Here's another gritty independent film that tries to invade Tarantino territory by casting Christopher Walken--that most reliable of indie-film actors--as a Mobster who gets chummy with a group of preppie-like young men and becomes the victim of a kidnapping scheme. One of the kidnappers (Henry Thomas) has a sister who's been abducted by another group of kidnappers, and they've bagged Walken for his Mob connections and negotiating power. What follows is a game of psychological strategy in which the desperate group of guys slowly lose their advantage to the smarter, more experienced gangster--even though they've got Walken tied to a chair. The situation turns volatile when the young men start to doubt the wisdom of their strategy and suspect betrayal within the group, and Suicide Kings turns into a talky, repetitious thriller only partially redeemed by Denis Leary's cagey role as Walken's Mob lieutenant. The movie's a showcase for its cast of rising talent (including Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Johnny Galecki, and Sean Patrick Flanery), but not even Walken can hold it all together. What's best about the film is Leary's sinister presence in a peripheral role and Walken's trademark villainy, here toned down to a steady, simmering menace. --Jeff Shannon

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Suicide Kings Review.......2007-07-20

In this dark comedy, Christopher Walken shines as a mobster abducted by five friends (including Jay Mohr and Henry Thomas). These guys believe Walken can solve the kidnapping of one of their sisters. As Walken plays mind games, his captors splinter, each wondering whether one of them had a hand in the crime. The DVD is chock-full of fascinating extras.

This mob film has it all.......2007-04-03

Christopher Walken is a former organized crime figure that gets kidnapped by a group of preppies that hold him for ransom. (This happens right up front in the story so I'm not giving anything away). The kidnappers realistically come off as bungling amateurs. Walken's presence is overwhelming (even duct taped to a chair) and he looms large over the whole story. Great perfomance. Throughout the film, the viewer keeps anticipating, "Somebody is going to really get hurt here". They do, of course.

The story has plenty of mystery and multiple twists. There are gruesome execution and mutilation scenes. It has laugh out loud comedy - special mention to Denis Leary and his "stingray boots". He plays a thug and is appropriately menacing and crude, but he is genuinely funny . . . even while brutally beating a man with a golf club. The R rating is appropriate.

A well written and directed film. Camera work a little unimaginative. Good sound.

If you are OK with the violence, you are guaranteed an entertaining experience with this film.

I Give This Film Five Cowbells.......2007-03-19

Is Christopher Walken the Man or what? For the first hour or so I thought Walken was essentially in paycheck mode deferring to his young co-stars(Jay Mohr, Henry Thomas, Johnny Golicki, et al), who aren't bad by the way, while he's duct-taped to a wheelchair slowly bleeding to death from a dismembered digit. Then the Walken-ator jumps into action and the wheels are in motion. You watch him size up his captors and turn the situation around to his advantage. Was there any doubt! As a bonus you also get Dennis Leary as an associate of Chris who shows the young turks that they're not ready to play with the big boys. You can say that "Suicide Kings" has a little bit of the Tarantino influence as well as "The Usual Suspects". There is enough originality in director Peter O'Fallon's film to differentiate it from it's predecessors. In a nutshell, "Walken fans, rejoice!"

BUSKET.......2007-03-09

This film is so popular that I imagine there isn't much I can say that hasn't already been said. I will tell you that it is worth your time for the Dennis Leary 'Busket' scene (oh yeah and to hear him talk about his shoes)- Leary is always hilarious. Yes, this film is indeed dark and funny- but when have you known Walken to be anything different?! LOL Hold on to your fingers (you'll understand after you watch), prepare yourself for the twisted ending and ENJOY!

Awesomely Gruesome.......2007-02-18

Christopher Walken is an excellent man of importance. these kids in the movie, superb job in creating the roles of first time kidnappers!

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Buyer beware! (Please read my review)
Atmospheric but tepid
Waterlogged
Powerful film that should be avoided by small minded idiots with ADD
A Promise Not Kept

The River King
Starring: Liam Cyr , Colin Rogers (III) , Edward Burns , John Kapelos , and Bruce Murphy (IV)
Director: Nick Willing
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ASIN: B000BPK2KC
Release Date: 2006-01-24

Product Description

Detective Abel Grey (Edward Burns) is called to investigate the death of a prep shcool student in the nearby river. Initially ruled as a suicide, Grey suspects that the death was a hazing incident gone toofar and solicits the help of a sypathetic and smitten teacher (Jennifer Ehle) to uncover the truth. Through a series of mysteriously placed clues, he is led on a path to not only uncover the answers to the student death, but also with how own personal demons stemming from the suicide of his older brother years earlier.

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Buyer beware! (Please read my review).......2007-07-16

The reason that I indicated "please read my review" is that generally customers disregard 1 star review. But I couldn't give something more in order to make it convincible. In fact if I had the opportunity I would have given 0 starts...
The film is EXXXTTTTREEEEEEMMMLLLYYYYY DULL AND SLOW! It is a type of film that will make you ask yourself "so whatt??" in the end. In fact you start to ask this to yourself even in the middle of the film.
Just a note to bear in mind: If you come across with the trailer of the movie by chance, you need to know that it doesn't reflect the actual synopsis of the film. It reflects as if this movie is a creepy horror film. It is not. It would be in the drama category I think. I saw the trailer in the DVD of Half Light, which is a product of the same movie company. BTW, Half Light altough not perfect, was far much better.

Atmospheric but tepid.......2007-01-15

The River King is a passable evening's entertainment that merits a repeat viewing, provided your expectations are limited to one or more of the following: a "New England-y" movie with lots of New England-type (in reality, Halifax) snow scenes; remote, elite prep school movies and/or hazing films; murder mystery with vague sense of unease/discord.

Good acting will, however, be in short supply (that's right, I'm here speaking of...well, everyone except the British guy aka Julian Rhind-Hutt). Ditto on contiguous, well-integrated narrative lines and quality sound production (maybe it was the mics, but everyone sounds like they were recorded with a ten-dollar Radio Shack tape recorder).

I've not read The River King, but I have read two or three other Hoffman novels. She is not, for me, the best of contemporary writers, but she comes up with interesting stories with strong senses of place/setting (usually New England) and her polished style is rich in metaphor
and a northern (Anglo) version of magical-realism. Having read other of her works (and seen the very silly but fairly entertaining Practical Magic), I can say that her work appears difficult to translate to film. Here, for example, the tadpoles trope (which screams "Hoffman magical realism alert") was quite foolishly played with an emphasis on the realism rather than the magic.

Yet despite the expected pitfalls of Hoffman adaptation, the filmmakers could have done a better job with this project, perhaps by excising the face-in-the-photographs theme, which misleadingly promises a supernatural storyline. The only ghosts in this movie are psychological.

Ed Burns looks too much like Sean Hayes ("Will & Grace")for me to take him seriously as a self-contained, troubled cop. Plus, his reading of some of his lines causes me to seriously question how he ever made it big in movies. British actor Jamie King plays bad boyfriend Harry, and his lousy American accent mirrors his acting skills. Quebec-born Rachelle LeFevre is passable as the grieving best friend Carlin, and her lovely mane of red-gold curls distracts us enough that we don't really notice any faltering steps.

Half British-half American Jennifer Ehle pulls out the rusty American accent of her youth (it has been asserted she can slip in and out of equally perfect Yank and Brit accents at will), although Yank is in fact a misnomer; she "cayn't" help but speak in an odd corruption of her native North Carolinian twang.

The score is solid and offers and appropriate feeling of discord, with the best work--on what sounds like a mandolin or dulcimer--over the credits.

If you are interested primarily in "atmosphere" of the sort that suggests everyone is hiding a secret, and if you can tolerate uneven acting and a few poor accents, by all means, pick up the River King. Mostly, you will enjoy this provided your expectations are not high, especially due to the big-name actors.

I've watched it twice now and will likely pop it in again on a rainy Sunday when I am avoiding housework. Here's hoping you can find an equally good use for it.

Waterlogged.......2007-01-15

A murder mystery at an elite school, wrapped in the silent chill of a snowy winter. Why not? Well, "The River King" shows that a movie needs a coherent plot as well as a unique style, but it belly flops painfully with its uninspiring acting, meandering storyline, and an ending that completely bombs.

Student Gus Pierce (Thomas Gibson) is found frozen in the river. Cop Abel Grey (Edward Burns) investigates the elite prep school that Gus attended, trying to find out if it was an accident, suicide, or murder -- any of them is possible, since Gus was quite angry. Abel also finds time to romance a teacher at the school (Jennifer Ehle).

But the mystery of Gus's death is that no one seems to care -- his classmates despised him, and the police drop the case without warning, despite signs of foul play. But with his personal demons emerging, Abel continues investigating the case, suspecting it of being a hazing gone wrong -- and discovers that he may have been wrong all along.

But if you must adjust a book's plot for a movie, then at least it should make sense. And for seventy-five percent of "River King," the plot seems like a straightforward murder mystery, framed in beautiful New England houses, snow, icy rivers and sleeping trees. Okay, the actual investigations could be covered in fifteen minutes rather than an hour, but it's all right.

Then... it all comes apart. Burns and Ehle's relationship feels thrown in (does obsession let you have breaks for romance?). Director Nick Willing and writer David Kane try to make this a jack-of-all-trades film, with the token romance, ghost stories, murder mystery, and a creepy philosophical high school club. Most of these subplots are touched on just long enough to make them seem bizarre, but not enough to make them a part of the movie.

And the finale makes no sense -- after dozens of clues, sinister coverups, and glaringly obvious murder, Willing and Kane decide to throw a "shocking twist" into the finale. Except it's not a twist -- suddenly the whole lone-wolf murder mystery becomes a catalyst for Abel's family problems. It's a MASSIVE anticlimax that feels like a sandbag whack in the face. Viewers are left with nothing. At all.

Burns does what he can with his role, even though Abel is somnolent at best. The only scenes where he gets to show what he can do is when Abel is angry. And he has zero chemistry with Jennifer Ehle, who does a nice job despite a paper-thin character and bad wig. Rachelle Lefevre is the only actress who gets to play a character of any dimensions -- the slightly off galpal of Gus'.

"The River King" had so much promise, but it bogs down in its glacial plot and absurdist ending. Even Ehle and Burns can't save this soggy, cold little mess.

Powerful film that should be avoided by small minded idiots with ADD.......2007-01-05

Gorgeously brooding cinematography, brilliant and perfectly chosen cast and a deeply emotive score characterize this melancholy reflection on the death of a young man and the ripples it has on the lives of a cop, a teacher and a close friend. Easily one of the best films of 2005 that sadly fell under the radar. This is one of those rare gems that real film lovers will discover in the years to come and hold up as an example of what a great movie can really be.

Sadly now you're stuck with reviews on Amazon.com from 3 camps:

1) The book purists who decry any derivation from the original source material and refuse to look at the film apart from the novel (a complaint that's understood but unjustified and unfair when judging a film on its own merits);

2) Moronic, tasteless idiots (usually younger viewers but not necessarily) who lack a brain, a heart and any measure of patience for anything that doesn't involve slick antiheroes, fast-paced violence and debasing sex;

3) Fans of the material who like what they've seen but struggle to properly synopsize or understand it due to the film's subtleties and metaphoric nature. I'll put myself in this latter category as I think the film is best experienced than read about, but as there are so many dim-witted responses to this film, I might as well try my own dim-witted attempt to explain what is so incredible about this picture.

I won't go into the plot, save to say that it begins with the discovery of a body in a river and the investigation by an honest police officer (played by Burns) who starts to see evidence that more is involved than an accident.

The three leads are very real, tragic characters that belong to the town's icy wasteland which has become infused with the mysterious death that in each of their lives takes on almost mythological proportions.

Burns is absolutely perfect in the role of a cop whose grief for his long dead brother is triggered by the investigation and possible cover-up. Unspoken and stoic, the grief is all in his achingly haunted eyes; like the small town blanketed in winter the character is frozen by sorrow, unable to move forward in his life.

Burns is joined by the ever wonderful Jennifer Ehle (Pride & Prejudice), a teacher in the school where the boy attended, who in her own way becomes obsessed by the tragedy of the case. Unlike Burns, Ehle is frozen not by the past, but by the future -- engaged to a man that is utterly void and cold -- yet unable to see a way out for herself.

Lastly there is the dead boy's friend played by Rachelle Lefevre, a young woman traumatized by the possibility that her friend may have committed suicide due to a fight she had with him shortly prior to his death. Unable to cope with the part she may have played, she becomes a stark figure of grief stuck in the icy landscape of a terrible moment.

Part of what makes this film so powerful and refreshing is it's deft use of music, camera and subtle metaphoric elements to create a deeply moody palette that approaches myth, yet remains utterly real and hauntingly reflective without falling into the cliched supernatural thriller mold. Likewise, while utilizing some of the trappings of mystery and cop films, it never descends into the cliche of the violent police film, nor the mystery movie that presents twists just for the sake of fooling the audience.

This film works at a much higher level than all of that. Yet despite its metaphysical elements, it's never pretentious or ungrounded in real life, even if at times that reality is heightened. There is a rare emotive quality here that weaves a spell akin to what great literature is able to achieve, creating genuine mystery and keeping the reality of the plot from ever feeling altogether depressing (which some feel while reading a newspaper for example.) It's aptly named The River King as there are layers of depth that will have you returning to the film and even picking up the original novel by Alice Hoffman. Sadly, the only thing lacking is any kind of extras on the DVD (save the trailer which is terribly cut to make the film look like something else.) A future release with director's and actors' commentary, an interview with Alice Hoffman, deleted scenes and other added bonuses would be great! That said, the 16x9 transfer is incredibly life-like and detailed. The 5.1 sound makes good use of the surrounds where appropriate to create and sustain the film's stark atmosphere.

Without revealing anything, I think where some people find themselves disappointed in the film (apart from the simpleminded buffoons who demand Hollywood cliches and can't handle something different) is that the River King takes the viewer on a journey that shows us glimpses of an elusive heightened sense of reality, but brings us back to the surface of the real world. And it is a grievous world. And yet as in the image of spring and the flowing water, lives become unthawed, and the story is redeemed from being too unremittingly grim. Not every mystery is solved, and not everything is perfectly tied up. Nor should it be. That's not how life is. And the river keeps its own secrets.

If nothing else I've said makes any sense, trust me when I say this: If you appreciate a movie that actually makes you feel something, and doesn't have to provide pat answers and false thrills, pick up The River King.

A Promise Not Kept.......2006-08-25

This is a thoughtful, well-made film but its problem is that the ending leaves the viewer disappointed and let-down. It poses a number of interesting, possible answers to the death of a young man, yet the "truth" of that death leaves both the viewer and the hero of the story feeling that we have wasted our time in trying to make sense of it. This film has the saving grace of Jennifer Ehle, whose beauty and grace shine far beyond her role. There is something magical about this actress and the film is worth seeing if only to watch her. Another of her films, "Possession," is similarly lit by her performance.

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Suicide Kings Review
This mob film has it all
I Give This Film Five Cowbells
BUSKET
Awesomely Gruesome

Suicide Kings
Starring: Mark Watson (II) , Christopher Walken , Denis Leary , Nina Siemaszko , and Jay Della
Director: Peter O'Fallon
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
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ASIN: 0784011516
Release Date: 2001-02-20

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Customer Reviews:

Suicide Kings Review.......2007-07-20

This mob film has it all.......2007-04-03

I Give This Film Five Cowbells.......2007-03-19

BUSKET.......2007-03-09

Awesomely Gruesome.......2007-02-18

Christopher Walken is an excellent man of importance. these kids in the movie, superb job in creating the roles of first time kidnappers!

Crime Collector's Pack - Suicide Kings - Bad Lieutenant - Bad Boys

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Crime Collector's Pack - Suicide Kings - Bad Lieutenant - Bad Boys
Starring: Artisan DVD
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ASIN: 0784013233
Release Date: 1999-09-28

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poor DVD

Suicide Kings/Wagons East!
Starring: Wagons East , and Suicide Kings
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poor DVD.......2006-04-30

For Wagons East this DVD is ok but if you also buy it because of Suicide Kings than this DVD isn't for you.

It's only one DVD with both movies and no extras. All the extras from the Suicide Kings Special Edition aren't on this like the Alternate Ending or Trailer and even the Audio isn't DD 5.1 (it's only DD 2.0 Stereo) and the menu is very cheap made.

Crime II Collector's Pack (Reservoir Dogs/Suicide Kings/Killing Zoe)

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Stuck in the middle with you......................
ZOE
3 Crime Thrillers which Serve there Purpose.

Crime II Collector's Pack (Reservoir Dogs/Suicide Kings/Killing Zoe)
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ASIN: 6305742502
Release Date: 2000-03-15

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Killing Zoe (1994, 98 min.) - An American arrives in Paris to rob a bank, but the call girl he slept with the night before happens to work there.
Reservoir Dogs (1992, 99 min.) - Perfect strangers assembled to pull the perfect crime turn against each other when they discover of them is a police informer after a simple robbery turns into a bloody ambush.
Suicide Kings (Special Edition) (1998, 106 min.) - Five college preppies concoct a crazy plan to kidnap a retired mobster and hold him for $2,000,000 in ransom, until he turns them one against the other.

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Stuck in the middle with you.............................2006-03-16

This boxset set is briliant all three films I highly recomend even though I don't have this set I have them seperate. Reservoir dogs ofcourse is the best film in this set, Quentin Tarantino's debut film is about a group of experienced criminals who have each been given a code name like Mr. Blonde Mr. Orange ect. to conceale their identeties from each other led by Joe (Lawrence Tierney) who assembeled the team in a warehouse for a simple heist but then their plans get screwed up when their happens to be a traitor amongst them. The cast of characters are excelently played by the actors especialy Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi who doesn't beleive in tipping and Michael Madsen who plays the psycho who tortures a cop that has just been captured in a hilarious yet distubing scene, this is one of the best crime thrillers of all time and should be watched by everyone it also has the best dialogue ever written which is typical Tarintino.

The next film is Scuicide kings which stars Christopher Walken as a powerful mafia boss who gets kidnapped by a bunch of college students and the reason for this kidnapping is because one of the students girlfriend has been kidnapped and held for ransome, even though the film has a few plot twists it doesn't become to excessive and tedious and the supporting cast is also brilliant O.k. not all of them Jeremy Sisto (Six feet under) was the best as a preppy and rather obnoxious person and the whole film was made better by the excellent performane by Walken.

Killing Zoe is probably the darkest and most violent film in this set, an american guy named Zed played by Eric Stoltz who dicides to visit some friends in France, so they plan to rob a bank since Zed is an expert at breaking into safes but soon alot of problems start since his prostitute girlfriend (Julie Delpy) who are both in love with each other also happens to work there so hes faced with a moral dilemma. The situation gets more intense as the cops arrive and are forced to negotiate as more hostages get killed cause the bank robbers are heavely into drugs. If you like Quentin Tarantino films and don't seem to be bothered by some gory death scenes then your going to love this cause its pretty good.

ZOE.......2001-08-07

I'm from germany and don't know the original versions in english. It's difficult to get the uncut versions in germany (german language!!!). But I KNOW that the movie isn't called "killing zone". It's called "killing zoe". "zoe" ist a prostitute and one of the main charackters of the movie. Hope that someone will correct that misstake.

best regards

PS: very nice movies......if you like Tarantino

3 Crime Thrillers which Serve there Purpose........2001-06-26

Reservoir Dogs: 5 Stars, the Perfect Crime Thriller. The Greatest directorial debut of All Time (yes, better than Citizen Kane) and, simply put, one of the Greatest movies of All Time.

Suicide Kings: 4 Stars, Highly Underated thriller that deserves to be more Widely Seen (as does a lot of Sean Patrick Flannery's work eg. "Body Shots" and "The Boondock Saints"). Exception cast make a good film Great.

Killing Zoe: 3 stars, a downer but still efective. Eric Stoltz and Julie Delpy can make Anything watchable.

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Customer Reviews:

Suicide Kings Review.......2007-07-20

This mob film has it all.......2007-04-03

I Give This Film Five Cowbells.......2007-03-19

BUSKET.......2007-03-09

Awesomely Gruesome.......2007-02-18

Christopher Walken is an excellent man of importance. these kids in the movie, superb job in creating the roles of first time kidnappers!

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Suicide Kings Review
This mob film has it all
I Give This Film Five Cowbells
BUSKET
Awesomely Gruesome

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Starring: Mark Watson (II) , Christopher Walken , Denis Leary , Nina Siemaszko , and Jay Della
Director: Peter O'Fallon
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Customer Reviews:

Suicide Kings Review.......2007-07-20

This mob film has it all.......2007-04-03

I Give This Film Five Cowbells.......2007-03-19

BUSKET.......2007-03-09

Awesomely Gruesome.......2007-02-18

Christopher Walken is an excellent man of importance. these kids in the movie, superb job in creating the roles of first time kidnappers!

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